The more I work on myself, the more I realize that the first step for me is almost always to just notice I’m stuck in a loop.

As a teenager, I didn’t make progress towards getting good at anything because I was stuck in the following loop:

1. Decide X is my passion
2. Go all in for X, think about it all the time, redirect all my energy towards it
3. After a variable amount of time (weeks, days, hours…), start worrying that I’m actually wrong, and that Y is actually much more representative, much more meaningful, much more “right”
4. Feel worse and worse about doing X instead of Y
5. Go back to step 1, but this time with Y

Solutions just jump out when casting the issue in this compress form: I might decide on just one thing and not change, to not get trolled [...]

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